This is a venue for the re-publication of information relating to the relatively recent history of the South African Defence Force. Although this material had been published elsewhere, this is often in relatively obscure or hard to find places.

The material published here is done so without comment, leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions.

Kevin Toolis went to Namibia in the mid-Eighties, an idealistic rookie journalist eager to join the struggle against the evil of apartheid. He was deported in short order. This spring - ten years on - he returned, expecting to find a country transformed. Sure enough, the South African security forces have gone, but in other ways he found it all strangely familiar.